print email comment close Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlhome.html Description: An online archive of more than 400 items and over 100 sound recordings relating to Emile Berliner. Berliner "was responsible for the development of the microphone and the flat recording disc and gramophone player." He was also interested in the pasteurization of milk and other public-health issues, and was a composer, poet, and philanthropist. The collection is searchable and browsable. From the American Memory project of the Library of Congress, Publisher: Library of Congress Extra Keywords notablephilanthropists Library of Congress Subject Headings: Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929 Microphone People Sound -- Recording and reproducing Sound recording industry LII Database Information: Record 14568 created by Sybil Finemel on 06/27/2004 Last modification on 10/04/2004 Published: 06/27/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14568